If you call a magician an artist, it is a great honour for him and if you call an artist a magician, it may be interpreted in very many different ways! Anish Kapoor—the very name evokes awe. But, behind that awe is three decades of incessant...

Manushi and the Burmese Community in India celebrated the 66th birthday of the Nobel laureate and the NLD leader of pro-democracy movement in Burma against the repressive military regime, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, in collaboration with Nehru Memorial...

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, there were 28 tigers in the Sariska Tiger Reserve. By 2005, the entire population of tigers was wiped out. An attempt to revive the tiger population through translocation of tigers that began in 2008 has...

The cheerful 75-year old Assam Chief Minister is back again for a third term after the 2011 state assembly elections. A lawyer by profession, who won five Lok Sabha elections, Tarun Gogoi, was confident of his win when he met the press at the Press...

After a five year hibernation, AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa Jayaram returned to power in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu with a thumping majority. Belying media speculations, Amma (Mother) or Puratchi Talaivi (Party Leader) as she is fondly...

The Trinamool Congress leader, Mamata Banerjee fondly called ‘Didi’ (which means elder sister) in her home state, stormed the red bastian of West Bengal and painted it green. Ringing in the ‘poribartan’ (Bengali for ‘change’) that she had...

Arunachal Pradesh chief Minister Dorjee Khandu’s helicopter which took off from Tawang at 9.55am on Saturday April 30, 2011 is still untraceable after nearly 30 hours. The touch down at the Naharlagun helipad at Itanagar was expected to be at...

The Commonwealth Games 2010 is over and gone. But, its trail of irregularities does not seem to end. A new case has been added to the long list of alleged irregularities of the Organising Committee of the Commonwealth Games 2010 reports the Hindustan...

The two-time chief minister of Bihar maneuvered a near-impossible turnaround in Bihar and turned the state on its head addressed the very first press conference after the recent win, at the Press Club of India in New Delhi. He did not deliver any...

“Every dog has his day…,” so goes the saying. But, does every dog have his day during his lifetime? Or does he need to be reborn as a dog again and again and wait for another lifetime till he finally has his day? Only time can tell. If a dog...